“Please help us paramedics. We have been living in constant stress and tension for a year and a half. Many of you were at home, cleaning apartments and houses, having time for family and children. We were at work. You worked from home, we ran around the sick beds. “You studied with the children, our children waited until we returned home in the evening,” they said in the letter.
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We’ve had enough. We are professionals, experienced health professionals, but we are not religious, we also have our lives. And those don’t include 25 twelve-hour shifts a month.
from an open letter from nurses
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The nurses describe the course of the pandemic in hospitals, the experience of caring for infirm patients, the fears of seeing the Christmas experienced due to the pandemic at work. “We have had enough. We are professionals, experienced health professionals, but we are not religious, we also have our lives. And those do not include 25 twelve-hour shifts a month, “they said in a letter.
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The nurses warn that they are vaccinating for health and normal life. “We expect you to be healthy so that you do not need hospital assistance. Have you seen how hard patients with covid die? Why did the idea arise that we had to manage all this when we chose this profession? We are used to the sick, we are used to dying, we are ready for a lot of work, but there may be situations where it is simply impossible to manage. We also have our limits, our limits of strength – both physical and mental, “they said in the letter.
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The nurses point out that there was not enough vaccine in the spring, but now, according to them, they almost have to beg for people to come for the vaccine. “By your resistance to vaccination, you are only helping to spread the covid and its mutations,” wrote nurses who ask those who do not trust them to come and help.
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“Someone has to bring the patient a bowl, wash it or assist them when they are no longer able to help. Yes, this is also a job in hospitals and it does not require any excessive medical education, we will all be happy to train you as a volunteer, “says the letter signed by the head nurses of the Regional Health Hospital.
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